• Avoca North, male Lion trailing a breeding herd of approximately seventy Cape Buffalo on the Southern side of Elephant Plains Airstrip.
  

• Avoca North, male Lion mobile East across MMM into Djuma.
  

• Pack of seven African Wild Dogs killed an Impala, The kill was then stolen by Spotted Hyenas and then they were chased of by the Northern Avoca Male Lion on old EP drive way.
  

• Two Black Dam male Lions moving East at Mfezi open.
  

• Four Nkuhuma Male lions on Buffelshoek Gowrie cutline West on Insinga access.
  

(07-30-2023, 09:17 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: Male next to Ubuso is Light Maned Gijima, not 3rd.

3rd male was very skittish, there is 0 photos of him in Sabi Sands.

My opinion is that he got spooked by Ndhzengas, run away and never come back to search for his partners.

They might not be partners for long, so bond might not be there for 3rd to be attached to other 2.

I dont think he was killed by Ndhzengas.

(07-31-2023, 01:08 AM)Gavskrr Wrote: I don't know if it was in the same post but what I saw about the 3rd male being with Kambulas came from Facebook where it states that Gijimas comes from the pretoriuskup pride. But so far no real proof of this has emerged.

(08-01-2023, 07:24 AM)Tylermartin! Wrote: Ok so I’ve got a question about bigger lion coalitions so doesn’t it stay the same when the biggest isn’t the leader or is the leader is the oldest male at the begging or loner always disappears or the smallest male is the most aggressive like I’m sure mr t, scrapper and Mohawk avoca where very aggressive males amongst their brothers just asking because it seems like a similar situation almost everytime

(08-01-2023, 07:47 AM)sik94 Wrote:

(08-01-2023, 07:24 AM)Tylermartin! Wrote: Ok so I’ve got a question about bigger lion coalitions so doesn’t it stay the same when the biggest isn’t the leader or is the leader is the oldest male at the begging or loner always disappears or the smallest male is the most aggressive like I’m sure mr t, scrapper and Mohawk avoca where very aggressive males amongst their brothers just asking because it seems like a similar situation almost everytime

I don't think that's a given, DM Majingalane was probably the smallest but he was the clear leader and the most dominant, same goes for Nsuku of the Birminghams, or even the Mbiri males with Shaka the more dominant one. I think it's usually the male with the darkest mane who tends to be dominant, not necessarily the biggest, though usually the male with the darkest mane is also the biggest as they usually have better genetics among their coalition mates. The smaller males are usually more aggressive because they always get pushed around by others and some of them make up for the lack of size by being extra aggressive, not all of them though so even that changes from individual to individual.